ACL Festival

The second day of the Austin City Limits Festival seemed to draw everyone who wasn't at the University of Texas football game, and then some. The weather couldn't have been better for the Saturday event, which held several highlights, like folk-rockers The Avett Brothers, rap icon Eminem and EDM mastermind Skrillex. But the day also provided a couple lessons for festival organizers, particularly when it came to stage placement for current Top 40 royalty Iggy Azalea.

The first day of Austin City Limits Music Festival is almost always the easiest. Only those with the afternoon off are able to make it to Zilker Park in the first few hours, so the crowds are still bearable, lines are slightly shorter, the pace less frenetic.

In the wake of the cancellation of Sunday's Austin City Limits Festival performances due to weather, a number of schedule artists have been scrambling to find alternate venues in which to play. A few, including Franz Ferdinand, The Lone Bellow and Wild Feathers, have succeeded (though Franz Ferdinand's ultimate landing spot has changed since we originally reported).

The Sunday morning announcement that C3 Presents had cancelled the 3rd and final day of the Austin City Limits Festival was met with resigned disappointment by most attendees in the area, who'd spent the previous 12 hours watching torrential rain fall and thrilling to (or recoiling from) a spectacular thunder and lightning display.

For the first time in its 12-year evolution, the Austin City Music Festival branched out to more than three days this year. The new arrangement, largely mirroring that of west coast stalwart Coachella, saw the event go for a repeat of almost-identical lineups across two consecutive weekends.